Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:46:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:46:23 -0500 Received: from mail3.mia.bellsouth.net ([205.152.144.15]:43156 "EHLO mail3.mia.bellsouth.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:46:05 -0500 Message-ID: <3A89F1A5.7050603@bellsouth.net> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:47:01 -0500 From: Louis Garcia User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1-10 i686; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010202 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xpert@XFree86.Org Subject: Video drivers and the kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I was wondering why video drivers are not part of the kernel like every other piece of hardware. I would think if video drivers were part of the kernel and had a nice API for X or any other windowing system, would not only improve performance but would allow competing windowing systems without having to develop drivers for each. Has anyone thought or rejected this idea. Anyway, This was running though my head for a long time and just thought I ask. Lou - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/